Recent Posts

Someone's watching you

Go grab your tin-foil hat it’s time to talk about surveillance online in the modern internet.

Contine reading...

Trimming the Fat

After spotting a link on Fosstodon to the Web Bloat Score Calculator and investigating my scores on Google’s PageSpeed Insights I decided to reduce some of the “bloat” on my site.

Contine reading...

Running Spotify on the Terminal with spotifyd & spotify-tui

If you like your music, have a Spotify account and use Linux then spotifyd and spotify-tui might be nice alternative to using a heavier GUI client.

Contine reading...

Patching DWM

So far I have not spent an extended period working within dwm, I have however applied a whole bunch of patches to it and even partially customised it myself and I must say it wasn’t as painful as I thought it might be.

Contine reading...

How I make presentations

I dislike PowerPoint. There I said it. While it’s an okay tool for many I often find it cumbersome. Not to mention that it is a Microsoft product. I’ve tried various alternatives to it but they all seem to be trying to emulate the experience: Google Slides is okay but it’s stuck in the web browser and is owned by Google, another massive corporation with it’s own set of problems.
LibreOffice and OpenOffice both have their own along with Calligra but they’re even more cumbersome than PowerPoint to use, MacOS has Keynote but that again is a massive corporation run tool. What I have settled on using for a while now is reveal.js.

Contine reading...